Women and Arthurian Literature

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 1-13

3. ‘The elf-queene, with hir joly compaignye’: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 14-35

4. ‘And purʒ wyles of wymmen be wonen to sorʒe’: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 36-54

5. ‘Am I nat an erthely woman?’: Malory’s Morte Darthur

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 55-77

6. ‘Whether dreames delude, or true it were’: Female Presence in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 78-106

7. ‘I will, Lord, while I can’: Lady Charlotte Guest’s Mabinogion

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 107-126

8. ‘Women dressed in many hues’: Tennyson’s Stereoscopic Vision in the Idylls of Geraint and Enid

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 127-149

9. ‘Thro’ the brilliant eye’: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Illustrations to Tennyson’s Idylls

   • Marion Wynne-Davies

   Pages 150-161

10. ‘An arm clothed in white samite’: Twentieth-Century Women Writers and the Arthurian Legends (Mary Stewart, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Jane Yolen)

    • Marion Wynne-Davies

    Pages 162-194

11. Back Matter

    Pages 195-237

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This is the first full-length study of the role of women in Arthurian literature. It covers writing from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Covering the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Tennyson's Idylls, it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works and, finally, the Arthurian women writers of the twentieth century.

• 20th century
• bibliography
• Chaucer
• English literature
• fiction
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• literature
• Medieval Literature
• medieval period
• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• twentieth century
• Victorian era
• women
• writing

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